NOTIFICATION

[Cryscry]

POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC.
Kruslann 205, 1098 SJ,
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
POWERBALL BV LOTTERY 2006

Date: 13th Febuary 2006
Ref Number: PBL/ CN/ 6654/ CP

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE

British and American private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 12th of Febuary 2006 POWERBALL LOTTO -Wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in London, United Kingdom.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. It major aim is to promote music, theater, art, literature,projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected a mong the 45 lucky consolation prize winners Your email ID identified with Coupon No. PBL 2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.

Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a consolation cash prize of £1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds only). The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by our official Finance Broker. They will render to you complete assistance and provideadditional information and processes for the claims of your consolation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact Mr Mack White of EXTOL FINANCE HOUSE who has been assigned to assist you.

CONTACT INFO
Name: Extol Finance House
Email: extolfinancebrokers@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +44 702 406 4878
Fax: +44 870 068 1617

Once again congratulations from the management of the Powerball International Lottery on your consolation prize winning, we hope that you will use the winning for good causes and also partake in the forth coming Powerball Lottery Wheel Egames.

Regards,
Mrs. Laura Chase
(Group Cordinator)


Cryscry sais: I call at that number phone is permanently ocupated:)))))

So my concluzion is clear SCAM SPAM whatever:))))

[joewein]

Yes, this is a scam.

UK phone numbers starting in +44 70 are "special service" numbers. Such numbers can be programmed to forward calls to anywhere in the world. They are often used by criminals in Nigeria or other African countries to create the illusion that they are based in the UK.

You will rarely see a UK business using a +44 70 number, as these numbers are very costly to call (about US$0.90/minute).

A combination of a Yahoo email address and a +44 70 number almost always means it's a 419 scam by a gang in Nigeria.

[FW Admin]

Indeed, a scam... this almost identical email was doing the rounds last month as below - I have highlighted the main differences but in general hardly anything is actually changed on the bulk sent email:
Date: 10th January 2006

Ref Number: PBL/ CN/ 6654/ CP



Dear Consolation Prize Winner,


CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE


British and American private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 6th of January 2006 POWERBALL LOTTO -Wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in London, United Kingdom.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. It major aim is to promote music, theater, art, literature,projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected a mong the 45 lucky consolation prize winners Your email ID identified with Coupon No. PBL 2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.

Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a consolation cash prize of £1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds only). The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by our official Finance Broker. They will render to you complete assistance and provideadditional information and processes for the claims of your consolation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact Mr Mack White of EXTOL FINANCE HOUSE who has been assigned to assist you.



CONTACT INFO

Name: Extol Finance House

Email: mackwhite@uk2.net

Phone: +44 702 406 64878

Fax: +44 870 068 1617



Once again congratulations from the management of the Powerball International Lottery on your consolation prize winning, we hope that you will use the winning for good causes and also partake in the forth coming Powerball Lottery Wheel Egames.



Regards,



Mrs. Laura Chase

(Group Cordinator)
Different dates, and of course a different disposable, free email address. Because they send out quite literally millions of these emails, they do not have the time to tailor replies or responses for everyone; hence the lack of personal greetings on these messages.

[Carlitos]

What they do want??? Money for the fee or anything else???

[Nyla]

Money for fees, generally. However, they will also take any personal information you can provide, and some of them are quite adept at either recycling your information to scam others and look more legitimate, or using your information to get credit in your name.

[gururaj kodkani]

hi i have received Mail like this i think its also fake

POWERBALL LOTTERY INC.
263 Craven Park,
Charleston,
London NW10
United Kingdom
POWERBALL BV LOTTERY 2007
Ref Number: PBL/ CN/ 4811/ CP
Coupon Number: PBL 16642399

Attention: Gururaj k,

This is to bring to your notice that you have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Department of the POWERBALL LOTTERY INC, in accordance with the option you choose to claim your Winnings.

Your Winnings Prize has been certified "APPROVED FOR COLLECTION" You are to contact the affiliated paying Bank via the following detail as stated below:

Bank Info:
WOOLWICH BANK PLC (ENGLAND)
57/58 St. Andrew's Street, Cambridge,
CB2 3HZ.City Center, England,United Kingdom
MARK GRAY
The Director Foreign Operations,
International Remittance Department.
TEL: +44 704 571 8136
Fax: +44 871 251 3992
E-mail: directordesk@accountant.com

The following requirements should be sent to their offices for comfirmation and final process for payment. Your Winning funds will be transfered into your local bank account upon payment of their cost of telegraphic/swift wire transfer charges.

1.FULL NAME:
2.FULL ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.OCCUPATION:
6.TEL: (If any)
7.COUNTRY:
8.REFERENCE NUMBER:
9.A medium of identification, i.e either a copy of drivers license or international passport or any other legal means of identification(if any):
10.ACCOUNT COORDINATES: (Details of the account where you want your funds transferred):

Upon submission of the required information as stated above,you will be cleared for payment from their offices.

Regards.
Freddy McCarthy
Claims Officer.

[FW Admin]

Yes, this is absolutely a scam.

Woolwich are not a "bank" as such - they are (were) a building society (financial institution) and are actually owned by, and are part of, Barclays Bank plc. No-one would ever describe them as "Woolwich Bank PLC" simply because it doesn't exist.

The telephone numbers are from a "follow-me" service provider, that redirects calls to these numbers to virtually anywhere in the world - in this case, probably Nigeria.

The email address "accountant.com" is a free anonymously derived webmail account provided by mail.com to anyone; there is no need to enter any real information when applying for such an account.

[ppereira]

POWERBALL B.V
TANFIELD ROAD, CROYDON.
LONDON E14 4QS United Kingdom.
POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game 2007,
Date: 20th August 2007
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner


We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer
balloting sweepstake held on 20th August 2007, Your email ID identified
with coupon No. PBL2348974321.

You have been approved for the star prize of £500,000:00 (Five Hundred
Thousand Great British Pounds) only.For due processing of your winning
claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer Mr William Simon who
has been assigned to assist you.You are to contact him with the
following details for the release of your winnings.

Claims Requirements:

1. Full names:
2. Residential address:
3. Phone number:
4. Fax number:
5. Occupation:
6. Sex:male
7. Age:
8. Nationality:
9. Present Country:
10.Next of kin name/address:
11.Passport Photograph (or any form of legal
identification: Driver,s
License etc.)

Contact E-mail: agentofficerwilliam_simon@yahoo.co.uk
Mr William Simon
Fiduciary Agent
+447011140945
+447011147298

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation
prize winning, we hope you will parttake our forth coming POWERBALL
LOTTO-wheel Email-games.

Regards
Mrs Judith Mark
(Group Coordinator)